"We are eternal, and we demand sacrifice."

In the small town of Amakra, the hooded prophet held his hands high in prayer in front of the temple he had built, and his voice was drowned out by the chanting of the congregation.

The building on the edge of Amakra is very different from the other earth-and-stone buildings in the town.

The outline of the building is triangular and the three walls are supported by three columns.

The relief on the column is also uncomfortable, as it resembles a twisted human figure wrapped around the lower end of the column in an eerie and painful pose, while the upper half is carved with a large, flaming puffing single eye, with two horns and fluff, symbolizing full-time omniscience, staring motionlessly at the human figure below.

One-eyed stretched out three entangled tentacles, which were inserted into the embossed humanoid's eye sockets, heart sockets, and indescribable places, just right to block all the unclean places, but also reminiscent of this kind of vicious deliberateness.

The three pillars are in the form of a man, a woman, and a child, implying that the void treats all people equally. Although they were all wrapped around the pillar in a strange and twisted position, and tightly wrapped around the tentacles of the one-eyed monster, the entangled man did not show any painful expression, and his expression was extremely serene, leaving one eye to look straight ahead, as if he saw the door of nothingness open in front of him.

The inner workings of the temple are unknown.

Some say that it was a bottomless abyssal altar inside, because no matter how many live animals the Prophet brought in, it would not be able to fill the inner space of the temple, even if the live animals were already much larger than the space of the temple.

There are also people who are in the palace of the god of the void, and in the dead of night, occasionally someone hears the sound of grinding teeth coming from inside, which is distinct. Tick-tock, as if saliva keeps dripping, telling of endless hunger.

But many more were willing to believe that behind the door was another door to the void, for the Prophet was seen shining a strange light through the crack in the door when he opened the door of the temple. The Divine Nothingness will gladly accept all, believe it or deny it.

However, there is no definite basis for any of this.

No one but the Prophet made it out of the temple alive.

On weekdays, even members of the Order who were second only to the Prophet were not allowed to enter the temple to get a glimpse of what was going on.

And those who entered the temple as living sacrifices also walked in with a happy face, and went to an unknowable distance.

When the chanting was over, the celebrant asked the prostrate to stand up and line up to register the live animals they had found for contributions.

Marzaha saw it all.

The celebrant was originally a widow, but Marzahar only helped her to avenge her, and she gratefully joined his command to administer the ceremony for him.

She thought that sacrifice would bring peace.

Hidden beneath the ground are man-eating monsters, and it is the prophet who brings live animals into contact with hungry monsters, risking his life to bring peace to the people.

Marzaha looked to the side, the chief warrior following him fanatically.

He was originally the leader of a bandit tribe, and he was finally punished for all the evil things he had done.

Satisfying the ethereal spirits underground, Marzaha cracked open the earth and dragged his tribe underground, leaving him alone.

Obviously, he did not deserve to use his strength again, but he never thought that he was conquered by the great power displayed by Malzahar, and fanatically followed him to become the leader of the Order.

Whoever it was, Marzaha treated them equally.

To join the Order, one must first forget who you are so that you can devote yourself to the teachings.

Here, you can see the original enemies getting along peacefully.

The sins of one person will cause suffering in another, but all of them lose their meaning under nothingness.

Everyone's reasons for joining the Order are different.

Marzaha looked at the priest in the corner.

Before the priest joined the Order, he was just a normal middle-aged wealthy merchant, and his two sons had already married and lived a prosperous life.

However, in the prophecy, after his death, the two sons will completely break up for the family property, and the wife will die depressed with no one to support them, and finally the two children will join different tribes, and completely turn against each other in the tribal strife, and the children will kill each other for generations.

In order to prevent tragedy from happening, he joined the Order with all his possessions.

But then, what he feared happened.

Marzahar did not make up the prophecy, but he did use it to get the priests under his command.

What happened to priests was not an isolated case, but an insensitive norm in human society.

Before, now, and in the future, all human activities have always produced sin and brought endless suffering.

In his eyes, humanity is destined for a never-ending cycle of suffering, often self-inflicted, and even the most promising prophecies cannot break this curse.

It is better to destroy such a corrupt world.

So, Marzaha found a power to put an end to all this earthly suffering.

Void.

Regardless of sin or sickness, affliction or pain, the divine nothingness will gladly accept all people, and all will be enlightened and free from the never-ending cycle of suffering from war, conflict, and endless suffering.

So they firmly believe that once nothingness comes, all people will have great salvation.

As a herald of the Great Redemption, Marzaha was always thinking about how to increase the power of the Void.

The Void thirsts for flesh, and he must increase the size of the Order in order to increase the intensity of his sacrifices.

The celebrant handed over a ledger that stated the number of sacrifices the Order had collected during this time.

Seeing the growing numbers, Marzaha nodded, motioning for her to leave.

But the celebrant didn't leave, and Marzaha noticed that she was drawn to his glowing eyes. Just as he was about to drive away, he noticed that her eyes reflected the illusion of the future.

This would happen from time to time when he was awake, and even he couldn't control it.

Is it the vanity that has given some will?

In order to understand the implications, Marzaha initiated divination on the celebrant.

Then he saw the figure of the gods appear in the ruins of the town, and the fanatical believers turned their back on the faith of nothingness and embraced the sun.

Marzaha's look at the celebrant became much more complicated, and he sensed a hint of danger.

Although he could not see his future, he could deduce from these that his order would suffer a great shock in the future.

From now on, he's going to get ready.

"Intensify the expropriation and bring me more livestock." He said to the celebrant.